Example sentences of "[vb past] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accepted rate at which New York life moved was at least three factors faster than in London . |
| 2 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 3 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |
| 4 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 5 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 6 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 7 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 8 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 9 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 10 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 11 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 12 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 14 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 15 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 16 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 17 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 18 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 19 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 20 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 21 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 22 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 23 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 24 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 25 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 26 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 27 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 28 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 29 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 30 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |